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Akashi Hyogo
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Philosopher, speculator, gambler (based on where we are in the cycle). Background in quantum mechanics. Becoming old money in one generation.

I buy

-sour fish: fish, vinegar, salt, water in glass cup -> D

-cheese: just cheese -> D

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Some stupid cereal: sugar, seed oils, energy drink style multivitamin, microplastics? -> A

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Only correlation I found was: big corp marketing budget -> high score ..

Random "commonly" -> low score

Exactly.. to think loop (or any bitcoiner) is at this stage holding meaningful amounts of coins on not-backed-up hot wallet is retarded.

No human has ever had enough of anything especially the psychopaths who tend to rise to the top of political structures.

It is always cost benefit analysis.

Luckily they probably don't have demographics to pull that off.

I hope NATO does not collapse because I live much closer and even though I don't think Russia is marching towards Paris any time soon I still like my nuclear shield.

I hope it does not happen honestly.

Also price of Bitcoin would collapse as all the European bitcoiners would be relocating and would have to sell at any price.

Replying to Avatar Cyph3rp9nk

By @jaimercant

Incredibly, there are naive people who believe that Trump has "liberated" Venezuela. Trump is only interested in petrodollars. That is why he is currently interested in oil-producing countries such as Venezuela, Nigeria, and Iran. In this regard, Trump presents a series of criminal paradoxes:

- He attacks Venezuela to liberate a people from a dictator, while supporting the current president of Syria, a professional executioner.

- He bombs Nigeria because he is concerned about persecuted Christians, but does not intervene in Sudan, where Christianity suffers much more atrocious and systematic persecution.

- He is promoting a "spring" in Iran to overthrow a despotic Islamic regime, while rubbing shoulders with Saudi Arabia, a major patron of jihadist terrorism.

- He wants to curb alleged Russian expansionism, while announcing that Greenland should belong to the US for reasons of geostrategic security.

- He seeks to prevent Taiwan from being dominated by China, while threatening, in a coercive and bullying manner, to take the Panama Canal by force.

- Until recently, he was a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he has consistently favored the genocidal state of Israel in its efforts to turn Gaza into a wasteland.

In short, applauding Trump unthinkingly is equivalent to selling your soul to a greedy and unscrupulous devil.

However, I have recently learned that, in this delusional world, it is metaphysically impossible to convince a certain legion of dichotomous and Manichean sheep; it is not that they have renounced "critical thinking," but that they are simply incapable of it, given the voluntary "collapse" of their intelligence. For them, criticizing Trump is equivalent, for example, to being a communist or defending Maduro... Faced with such crude and obtuse ideas, I believe that the best response is disdain.

This is what cold war in 4th turning looks like.

Replying to Avatar Cyph3rp9nk

Crude prices are on all time lows (even fake) inflation adjusted.

Good take I heard is that Ukrainian drone successes has scared the shit out of US. They can even be built with off the shelve parts which makes proving (and nuking) who did it difficult.

Only weakness is their relative shot range..

US tries to prevent another Kuban missile crisis.

You mean processed shit or also fruits/vegetables, dairy .. ?

Replying to Avatar Max Stirner

1066, England. William the Conquering just taken the throne.

Within months, he issues the Forest Laws.

Hunting deer is now forbidden to anyone below noble rank. The punishment isn't a fine. It's death.

Not execution by sword, which would be quick. Execution by hanging, slow strangulation, body displayed in the village square as a warning.

Sometimes they'd blind you first and let you starve instead. The cruelty was the point.

These weren't conservation laws. The deer population was massive. Herds roamed freely across thousands of acres of "royal forest" that just happened to include the land peasants had been hunting on for generations.

The real reason becomes clear when you look at what replaced venison in the peasant diet. Bread. Lots of bread. Grain-based gruel. Pottage made from whatever vegetables they could grow.

The lords continued eating venison. Multiple deer per week. Whole roasted boars. Fatty game birds. Their tables groaned with meat at every meal.

The peasants ate grain and were told it was God's will that only nobility could hunt. The Church backed this up with sermons about knowing your place in the divine order.

A peasant family could watch deer walk through their barley field, destroying their crop, and be executed for killing the deer to feed their starving children. The deer belonged to the king. The barley belonged to the king. The peasant belonged to the king. And the king ate venison while the peasant ate gruel.

This wasn't about protecting animals. It was about controlling protein access. A population fed on grain is weaker, more compliant, easier to manage. A population eating meat is stronger, more energetic, more likely to cause problems for the ruling class.

The Forest Laws stayed in effect for 800 years. Eight centuries of restricting meat to the elites while forcing the masses onto grain. And during those eight centuries, the peasant class got shorter, weaker, more disease-prone with each generation.

The nobility, eating their venison and boar, stayed tall and strong. You can see it in the armor. Noble armor from the 1400s fits a 5'10" man. Peasant remains from the same period average 5'3".

Same genetics. Different diets. The nobility ate what humans evolved eating. The peasants ate what they were allowed to eat.

The elites have always known: Control the meat supply, control the population.

Interesting take.

I am messing with you.

I think there are 2 aspects:

- LN main use case is to send payments not gain privacy and it is difficult/costly to launder big amounts.

- average person (media) does not think about LN as privacy service (government still needs average voter to be on their side - or at least not be against - to really drop the hammer) (and we should not change that ! :D )

(~ 2 years ago I tryed to anonymize ~1BTC over LN without leaving any trace, it was quite an effort - and I am not really sure I was successful)

Where is my Santa rally?

Replying to Avatar Super Testnet

I don't know if they have each other as peers. I do know that at least two pools have complained that ignoring the subsat tx filters caused them to lose money via an increased orphan rate. CKPool complained about this here: https://x.com/ckpooldev/status/1957235824451559746 and Mara Pool complained about it here: https://x.com/PortlandHODL/status/1958520763083825640

So if they *are* peering with one another it is apparently insufficient. The miners who *ignore* that peering (maybe Ocean?) and just broadcast blocks to the rest of the network benefitted by getting their blocks propagated faster, and winning more races. I want to see that play out again, but this time with inscriptions, and to that end I am excited to see the Knots count rise.

Wow, I get it! But the difference has to be miniscule.

The thing is, additional revenue from sub sat txs is 0.06% which is super low. So that's why.

Also the orpahend block chance increases only because some miners are accepting them and some not.

This does not really apply to OP_RETURN debate. Or? Is there sb else beside Ocean?

What is a chance currently, that there are 2 new competing blocks - one by core and one by knots mimer AND next block by knots miner building on the competing knots block?

It works on Amethyst, which I did not realize until now lol.